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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 973.92 EAN: 9780679733591 ISBN: 0679733590 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: August 18, 1992 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: August 18, 1992 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
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 Rating:  - a classic that still deserves its classic statusThis book remains a classic, for good reason; it's Sociology at its best, and writing at its most lucid, interesting and significant. Rating:  - They won't reach a wide audience"The Good Society" is a thick book brought to us from the same people who wrote "Habits of the Heart." I never read that book, but if it is anything like "The Good Society," I think I will take a pass on it. Maybe my slightly negative opinion of this book is due to the fact that it was required reading for a class. Assigned reading often leads to disappointment and disillusionment. I avoided reading literature for years because of the Gestapo-like tactics of high school English teachers. What is ... Read More Rating: - Individuals and InstitutionsThis book by Robert Bellah and his colleagues elaborates upon the need for re-thinking the relationships between individuals and social institutions. Each of the major topical chapters includes an historical overview and practical suggestions for institutional change. Rating: - An excellent visioning and follow-up to Habits of the HeartThis book is required reading for our Organizational Psych program as we look at the context in which organizational dynamics, and problems, develop. If you thought Bellah et al. made a case about communitarian values in Habits, then here you can go forward with them... Something to ruminate on. 
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